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Advanced skills for using the virtual world of Second Life, from the Florida State University Virtual Reference Environments course, Fall 2009, by Dr. Lorri Mon.
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Second Life Advanced Skills
Dr. Lorri Mon, Florida State University
College of Communication & Information
(September 29, 2009)
Example of changing just skin and hair – drag and drop items
onto your avatar from Inventory, or click the item in inventory and
choose “Wear”
When you wear an item, it replaces what
you are currently wearing. So you don’t have to ‘take off’ other
items first as you would in real life.
On the Edit menu, choose Appearance and “Make Outfit” to save a favorite look.
Example of changing hair,
skin, shape, and clothes
The dreaded wearing-a-box!
Rightclick on the box and choose “DROP” to drop it to the ground
Then click the box and “OPEN” to get the contents.
“TAKE” the box when you’re done to clean up!
Doubleclick your animation and “play in world”
STEP 1: Rightclick the ground andclick Create on the pie – or on aMac, command-click the ground
STEP 2: A menu appears –You can click “More” to see more of the menu…
Click to select a shape (default is a cube)
Click the ground – there will be a ‘whoosh’ and your newly-created object will appear!
STEP 1
STEP 2
Building in SLBuilding in SL
STEP 3
Rightclick (PC)Or Command-Click (Mac)This time, select Edit on the pie, andClick the Object Tab
From the Object tab, you can –Move, rotate, add texture, stretch,and reshape your object (hollow, twist, path cut, dimple, rotate, etc.)
On the OBJECT tab, you can also change
the physical properties
For example, making the object have the physical properties of STONE, RUBBER, WOOD, etc.
To apply an image to the object surface from your Inventory
Texture folder, click the plywood box on the Texture tab
Create a script in your Inventory-Create-New area, save, name it, and drag it into the object Content tab. http://www.3greeneggs.com/autoscript/
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On the GENERAL tab, change the name from
“Object” to a new name
Change Permissions if you want others to be able to share or copy